Larry Langford

The cleanup and containment effort is underway at 35th Street and Wentworth Avenue.

Witnesses said the man had either fallen or jumped off the pier at the end of Pratt Blvd. about 11 a.m.

A string of garage fires in Bridgeport left a firefighter injured Thursday morning.

The blaze and another Park Manor fire were "started by a human act," a fire official said.

The man was taken to Northwestern Hospital in serious-to-critical condition.

The fire happened in the 300 block of North Canal Street Wednesday morning.

A freshman said students in the room where the accident occurred "were definitely all really scared."

A dollar store and a Cricket phone store were destroyed in a fire early Friday morning.

The Chicago Fire Department said 12 of the 16 deaths could have been prevented by smoke alarms.

A federal report criticized the Chicago Fire Department in the death of Capt. Herbert Johnson a year ago.

Three cars crashed in the 8200 block of South Stony Island Avenue Tuesday morning, police said.

A student in the class said her classmate's sweater caught fire during a science experiment gone wrong.

Five students were hospitalized after a chemistry experiment went wrong Monday, officials said.

Authorities are searching for roofers who they say are responsible for the fire.

The four-alarm fire broke out at about 4 p.m. Friday. No one was injured in the blaze.